Reply To: Advice for learning yiddish

Thanks all – for more clarification based on the responses I’m looking to learn modern yiddish (I’d like to be able to converse with people – no academic aspirations). I’ve heard there are different dialects but I live in Yerushalayim so I guess I’d like to learn the Israeli one.

I like the idea about shiurim or speaking with people at an old age home but I work full time and B”H have several young kids at home to help tend to after work so I don’t really have so much time and any shiurim I go to or listen to would be in English or Hebrew.

As far as children’s books – if you don’t already have some sort of background in Yiddish how are you supposed to understand the story? I tried reading a kid’s book once but couldn’t understand anything.

Are there any English/Yiddish dictionaries anyone would recommend?